Jacqueline Cochran stands in front of the Canadian-built F-86 Sabre jet, in which
she became the first woman to break the sound barrier. Cochran flew over Rogers
Dry Lake, California at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour. Among her
other aviation firsts: She was the first woman to take off from an aircraft carrier, the
first woman to reach Mach 2, the first pilot to make a blind instrument landing and
the first woman inducted into the Aviation Hall of Fame.
1962
It’s “breaks”!
Sorry, the F-86 was NOT a supersonic airplane. Likely she flew the F-100 for that feat.
I stand corrected,. she flew a “one off” F-86 made in Canada. The standard F-86 was not a normally a supersonic aircraft,